Improvement in neck-ties



a @enigmi 0% taire @met W. ,sfsMoor 'or WASHINGTON, DisTRIcT or COLUMBIA* Leners Paten; No. 585,036, amdwember 15, 186s.

IKIPRQVEMENT IN NEK-TIES.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

use the same, reference being had to the accompany-v ing diawin g, forming part of this specification, in which drawing- Figure l is a front view of my invention, as applied to a collar.

' Figure 2 is a transverse section thereof.

Figure 3 is a view of one of the ends of the neck-tie, detached. Y

Similar letters-indicate corresponding parts.

My invention consists of a neck-tie, formed of two parts or ends, each of which is attached to one end of a collar, so that, when the collar is fastened to the shirt-band, the neck-tie ends will overlap one another, take position, and serve neck-tie.

Heretofore, the ends of the neck-band of a collar have been extended and ornamented, so that, when the collar is secured about the neck, the ends will hang down, and have the appearance of a. neck-tie;

but, in this construction, it is necessary to buttonv the ends to the neck-band of the shirt, (they being provided with button-holes for this purpose,) thus exposing to view the shirt-button, and preventing the ornamentation of the neck-tie by the addition of a pin or brooch. A

In constructing my article, I form the pieces or parts of a tie in a shape corresponding to that shown in g. 3, they being excised from the material in the modes commonly practised jin the manufacture of papercollars, the materialbeing paper, ornamented by painting,

printing, or embossing, or by facing it upon either or the 'purposesof an ordinary' both sides with an ornamental fabric, or paper, strengthened by adding to it a woven fabric, either upon its back, or interposed between two thicknesses of it; or I may use a fabric of muslin or silk, strengthened by sizing, as is bookbinders muslin; or leather may be used lwith equally good eifect One of these pieces is attached to each end of a collar, upon the b and thereof, ata suitable point from the button-hole, to allow the collar to be attached to the shirt-band, the medium of attachment being either a pin, button, hook, or any adhesive substance.

It will be obvious, by reference to figs, l and 2, that when adjusted to the neck, the two parts of the neck'- tie overlap, and take .the positibn of the ordinary cone struction of a tie, in this case, as more fully shown in fig. 2, covering the button of the shirt, and preventi ing its exposition, this defect having caused the rejection by the public ofthe old mode of providing collars with an imitation necktie.

It is obvious that, by ornamenting both lsides of my device, the parts constituting thetie may be reversed,`

and serve their purpose after having been'soiled upon one side; also, that their exposed ends may be varied,

in shape or length, to suit the demandai' '-lshion -or and adapted to be attached to a collar, substantially as described. r

' W. S; SMOO'I. Witnesses:

GEO. W. Ro'rHwELIh PHIL. F. LARNER.

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